- For ipw2200, use "AP_SCAN 2" if the AP is hidden (166219)
- nm-vpn-properties: Don't let the user open more than one 'Configure
VPN' window at a time, lest chaos ensue (Novell bug #165011)
- nm-applet: Don't bail out if the timestamp is not set

++++ aaa_base:

- mount debugfs to /sys/kernel/debug if supported (#162214)
- get current build key from suse-build-key rpm

- New source drop (r27263) which:
- Restarts if we install patches that have RestartRequired set
- Throws an exception if there's no rollback actions to return.
This avoids creating a useless transaction that has to be
cancelled correctly.

- Add a patch to check for various places where our filesystem
could race and we would throw harmless but annoying exceptions.
(Noticed in bnc #139622)
- Add a patch to back out an upstream change to work around a
Mono bug, because that change was buggy and is no longer needed
since we're including a newer Mono than 1.1.13.4. (bnc #139622,
will also fix bgo #335178 and #338165 when the requirement
changes upstream)

- don't add duplicate error infos to ResolverContext (#167309)
- rev 3146
- fix Resolver::transactReset() (see rev 3122) (#167285)
- rev 3140
- Introduced $ZYPP_KEYRING_DEFAULT_ACCEPT_ALL. If this environment
variable is present, all signature checking callbacks will default
to 'accept', in case no recipient is present.
- read content file on construction, and make
provideProduct only insert the already
read product object into the store (#165826)
(dmacvicar)
- When the signature is not found, warn the
user about a unsigned source. When the
key is not found, do nothing, it can be in the
keyring already. (#166016) (dmacvicar)
- enable key verification only if
ZYPP_CHECKSIG env var is set (dmacvicar)
- r1529

- Removed dot-hidden.dif. This fixes bug #158158 completely; that
patch is obsoleted by the updated
nautilus-158158-ignore-foreign-desktop-files.diff.

++++ net-snmp:

- logrotate does not like if the postrotate script returns with
a non zero returncode.
- add missing "-e" in echo line

++++ openvpn:

- security fix (CVE-2006-1629): disallow "setenv" to be pushed to
clients from the server [#165123]

++++ pciutils:

- Auto-Update pci.ids

++++ perl-Bootloader:

- Fix a bug in CountSections(), and be more specific in
update-bootloader, even though it shouldn't be necessary with
the fix.
- Change option --xen to --xen-kernel=... (161197).
- Fix a bug when removing xen bootloader entries.

++++ quilt:

- pop-error-path-fix.diff: Fix bogus error message.

++++ vsftpd:

- rename xinetd config from vsftpd to vsftp to avoid name clashes
in chkconfig [#165745]

++++ xen:

- Create /boot symlinks in the %install section instead of in
%post so that they will end up in the package file list.
- Don't kill xenstored and xenconsoled when stopping xend.
(#158562, #156261)
- Update to 3.0.2-2 (xen-3.0-testing tree, changeset 9629):
+ Fix for SMP IA32 VMX guest booting.
+ KY's SETMAXMEM fix.
- Removed HTT bit from cpuid and set logical processor count to 1.
Also fixed logic problem in svm code where apic=0 was not
handled (#162244).

- SCR::Read(.target.dir, "/etc/xen/vm") instead of
SCR::Dir("/etc/xen/vm") to read list of used vm names (#165855)
- Can now extract the kernel and initrd using a SUSE ISO or
CD/DVD media. (#158529).
- 2.13.36

- Added nautilus-158158-ignore-foreign-desktop-files.diff to fix
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=158158. This makes
Nautilus ignore .desktop files whose OnlyShowIn property indicates
that they are specific to another desktop environment.
- Update nautilus-search patch to correctly handle a search URI
being passed into nautilus on the command-line. (bnc #166158)
- Added nautilus-155010-desktop-volume-policy.diff to fix
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=155010. This makes
Nautilus display the same set of drives and volumes as GTK+'s file
chooser. It will also display certain drives on the desktop for
easy access (in particular, drives that do not support notification
of inserted media, so we always need them to be accessible through
the GUI, as opposed to being automounted).

- New source drop (r27073) which:
- Adds tons of translations
- Adds and uses some glue code to exec ourself when we get a SIGHUP
- Adds a clear button for searching and handles
TreeView.RowActivated
- Sets the status of a service being removed.
- Nuke zen-updater-po.tar.bz2 and its baggage in the .spec; its
goodness has been brought into cvs.
- Remove the tray icon transparency patch; it is now in svn.

++++ zmd:

- New source drop (r27144) which:
- Parses the initial-configuration file instead of initial-service,
if available
- Makes sure all catalogues get added to the database, not just
ResolvableCatalogs

- Updated gtk2-filechooser-new-features.diff to fix these bugs:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=163234 - The file
chooser now sorts the list of Beagle hits by modification date.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166906 - The file
chooser in SAVE mode will now give the right filename if the user
just switched folders.

++++ kdeutils3:

- move documentation of apps in subpackage to subpackage (#166995)

++++ libzypp:

- Bugfix #166212
- use APPL_LOW as 'ui initiated, by solver' in transactKind() and
transactResObject().
- resetTransaction(APPL_LOW) before resolving
- enhance transactCaps by using the same algorithm as in
QueueItemRequire
(before: transact all requires and recommends by name
now: transact best requires and recommends by provides)
- rev 3107

- Exit from the net command with an error if Samba is not configured for the
required role; [#163227].
- Add portability issue fixes between 32-bit winbind clients and a 64-bit
winbindd server.
- Install pam_winbind.conf to /etc/security and add it with %config(noreplace)
to the samba-winbind sub package.
- Add fix to the vscan antivir module to circumvent longer startup times of
the antivir scanner process.

++++ hal:

- added patch:
- hal-fix-CD_DVD-capability.diff: fixed detection of CD/DVD
drive capabilities, added support for DVD+RW DL, fixed detect
DVD-RW (see bug #167101)
- hal-performance-properties2.diff: added patch from Ihno
Krumreich for a better performance (~30%) by use splay_tree
from gcc (see bug #146977) --> patch is in the source but not
in the package atm, need more testing.
- hal-fix-apm-poll_battery_reduce_events.diff: fixed apm battery
polling, now emit remainig time only ever minute instead
with each change every two seconds. This should reduce load
on the dbus-daemon with (k)powersave (see bug #157905)

++++ k3b:

- unmount dvd media before blanking (#165512)
- make use of kdeeject instead of ScsiCommand for eject()
- disabled clearing of MountPoints entries while scanFstab()

- Add a patch for shutting down cleanly when the X connection is
broken. (bnc #159219, bgo #334792)
- Add a patch to only print a warning about increasing your
inotify limit once, so we don't fill up .xsession-errors.
- Add a patch to safely execute external programs from filters
and the beagle-search UI. (bnc #165668)
- Add a patch to use standard IO rather than mmap() for our
OLE-based filters (ie, MS Word), when OpenOffice writes to it
quickly. (bnc #165304)

++++ bsd-games:

- fix typo in last fix (-p1 vs. -p0)

++++ dasher:

- Replace icon with new version from upstream

++++ gnome-volume-manager:

- Added 338323.patch to build in order to make autorun execute
the autorun script with the mount point as the CWD.

- updated ooo-build to version 2.0.2.6:
* crash when selecting email application
* allow right-click if focus is set to mouse in Metacity
* prefer Calc over Gnumeric in KDE, set InitialPreference=6 in calc.desktop
* enable Math MIME type setting; use NoDisplay=true instead of Hidden=true
in math.desktop
* crash with a11y [#165538]
* -display and other options with ooqstart [#160296]
* expression evaluation changed between 1.x and 2.0 [#164294]
* disable use of fontconfig to enable/disable bitmaps again [#164868]

++++ aide:

- run aide --init as test

++++ amarok:

- make scope (visualisation) work with the helix wrapper on 64-bit
- helix/x86_64: when playing streams, we didn't show any track info
- fix build of last change (ChangeLog didn't apply, file was moved)
- Readd fix to avoid scanning hidden dirs

++++ autoyast2:

- cloning individually selected packages if selections
are in use
- 2.13.43

++++ beagle:

- Use new control-center Categories instead of old ones.

++++ control-center2:

- Call %suse_update_desktop_file for all desktop files.
- Added gnome-ui-properties to control-center (118960#c11).
- Use new control-center Categories instead of illegal old ones.

++++ devhelp:

- Guard against initializing threads twice (#165486)

++++ glibc:

- Add /usr/include/linux/taskstats.h [#141936]

++++ gnome-cups-manager:

- Call %suse_update_desktop_file.
- Use new control-center Categories instead of illegal old ones.

- Call %suse_update_desktop_file.
- Use new control-center Categories instead of illegal old ones.

++++ gnome-session:

- Call %suse_update_desktop_file.
- Use new control-center Categories instead of old ones.

++++ gnome-vfs2:

- Added gnome-vfs2-155010-media-check-user-visible-drives.diff to fix
the gnome-vfs2 part of
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=155010. With this, a
GnomeVFSDrive is considered to be user-visible if it doesn't support
notifications when media is inserted: for such drives, we must
always show an icon to the user, otherwise there is no way to
auto-mount them and thus show them.

- Added libgnomeui-155010-filechooser-show-drives.diff to fix the
libgnomeui part of
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=155010. This makes the
file chooser show all user-visible drives in the Places pane, and
all the user-visible volumes.

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